Forest resident birds avoid intensive clearcuts, acoustic monitoring shows

New research reveals that resident forest birds avoid intensive clearcut areas, highlighting the need for more sustainable ...
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel

At loggerheads: Timber management, wilderness among issues of debate over plan for area forests

Chad Stewart, supervisor of the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests, has described the recently released revised land management plan for the forests as one that strikes “the best ...
extension.purdue.edu

Developing a Forest Management Plan

If you own woodlands, do you have a forest management plan? Is it written down? Do you have goals for the property, and are you managing the property to meet those goals? Purdue Extension foresters ...
Government Executive

Boosting timber harvesting in national forests while cutting public oversight won’t solve America’s wildfire problem

The western United States is facing another destructive wildfire season, with more acres burned in Colorado alone in 2025 than in the past four years combined. If global warming continues on its ...

The Forest Service is too important to be a political pawn

Some proposed changes, including to firefighting functions, have been criticized as seemingly intended to dismantle this ...

Forest Service and state of South Dakota sign agreement to work together on forest management

The U.S. Forest Service and South Dakota signed a five-year shared stewardship agreement to coordinate forest projects like ...
NH Business Review

(Opinion) Lawsuit over timber harvests could undermine management of national forests in Vermont and NH

New Hampshire and Vermont are home to two great environmental success stories: the White Mountain and Green Mountain National Forest. Together they comprise some 1.2 million acres of the northern ...
Oregonian

Timber and conservation groups reach deal to update forest management rules for 10 million acres of private land

After decades of controversy and a year of intensive negotiations, conservation and timber groups reached a deal early Saturday to update rules governing timber harvests and forest management on 10 ...
Purdue University

Forest Management for the Private Woodland Owner Course

Forests cover nearly 20% of Indiana, and approximately 85% is in private ownerships like farms and families. Less than 20% of those owners have a forest management plan to guide them in the ...